The Tractor hosts live shows 5-7 nights a week featuring a wide range of local and national acts. Check out all of your favorite Rock, Alternative Country, Rockabilly, Groove & Psychedelia, Celtic, Cajun & Zydeco, Folk, Blues, Jazz, and Bluegrass acts to name a few. And that’s not all…
 
The Tractor purveys a fine assortment of liquor, beer & wine, and TV dinners. It ain’t elegant, but it’s darn good. We feature a variety of local micro brews, imports and domestic, bottles and draft. We also carry a selection of non-alcoholic beverages including juices and sodas. We have an on-site ATM and accept Visa and MasterCard.

And now for the legal stuff...because we are a bar, all of our shows are 21+ and every person, no matter if you're 21 or 81, must have a valid I.D. to enter the venue. Valid I.D. is a current U.S. or Canadian issue driver's license or identification card, or a current passport. We cannot accept international driver's licenses (other than Canada) as I.D. Minors may not enter the venue under any circumstances.

***BANDS - READ THIS*** If you are a band interested in booking information, please  READ THE BOOKING GUIDE BEFORE YOU TRY TO CONTACT US! Thanks!

Who plays at the Tractor, you ask? All kinds of artists...here's just a small sample of bands and performers who have graced the Double T Stage in the last year or so...Dave Alvin, Angels Of Light/M. Gira, Asylum Street Spankers, Austin Lounge Lizards, Bobby Bare Jr., Danny Barnes, Jay Bennett & Edward Burch, Dan Bern, Big Sandy & The Fly-Rite Boys, Bigger Lovers, Bitch & Animal, Brave Combo, Caitlin Cary, Peter Case, Clumsy Lovers, Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers, Cobra Verde, Crooked Fingers, The Damnations, Jesse Dayton, Dead Moon, Kris Delmhorst, The Derailers, Dervish, Deke Dickerson, Johnny Dowd, Drive-By Truckers, Dusty 45s, Fred Eaglesmith, Stacy Earle & Mark Stuart, Alejandro Escovedo, Melissa Ferrick, Steve Forbert, Tony Furtado, Lisa Germano, Eliza Gilkyson, The Gourds, Neil Halstead, Matt Haimovitz, Wayne "The Train" Hancock, John Wesley Harding, Kristin Hersh, Tish Hinojosa, Rex Hobart & The Misery Boys, Robin Holcomb & Wayne Horvitz, Hot Club of Cowtown, Wanda Jackson, Mason Jennings, Pete Krebs, Tom Landa & The Paperboys, Living Daylights, Lunasa, Doug Martsch, J Mascis, Del McCoury Band, Christy McWilson, The Meat Purveyors, Tift Merritt, Buddy & Julie Miller, Mofro, The Paladins, Michael Penn, Pernice Brothers, Chuck Prophet, Toshi Reagon, Red Elvises, Jonathan Richman, Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys, The Annual Rockabilly Ball, Tom Russell, The Sadies, John Scofield, Sex Mob, Billy Joe Shaver, Slobberbone, Chris Smither, Todd Snider, Solas, Supersuckers, Chris Whitley, Victoria Williams & Mark Olson, Wylie & The Wild West, Steve Wynn...and the list goes on and on!

Advance tickets are available online or over the phone through TicketWeb.com (with a credit card), in person at the Tractor (cash, checks, or credit cards accepted), and in numerous retail outlets. Showroom doors open approximately one hour before show time. More details are available by clicking on the TICKETS/CONTACT page to the left.

"Long a promising space lurking on a pleasantly sleepy block in Ballard, the former site of the New Melody Tavern came into its own in 1994 when Dan Cowan took the place over and gave it a personality, both decoratively and musically. Now it's the central gathering place for Seattle's bubbling-under alternative-country scene, as well as a serviceable venue for all manner of roots, folk and traditional musical styles, from acoustic singer-songwriters to rockabilly rave-ups to Cajun-flavored zydeco to the traditional Irish music. The layout is simple -- it's basically just one medium-sized rectangular room, divided by a wall in the back half but open in the front so that the stage on the left is visible to folks at the bar on the right. Tractor-oriented items and other rural-related paraphernalia hung from the walls give the place a refreshingly non-urban feel. The honorary "house band" is Ron Bailey's sizable Hank Williams Revue, which every few months plays on Wednesday nights for several weeks in a row and usually packs the place with a diverse audience that ranges from two-stepping grandparents to younger punkers searching a truer sound."
[Peter Blackstock, Co-Editor of No Depression Magazine]

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